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• Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

  William Booth

  Soul, Saving, Want

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• Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

  William Booth

  Fighting, Self, Soldier

  William Booth (1890). “Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirements of Jesus Christ's Service”

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• Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

  William Booth

  Men, Rocks, Sea

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• Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.

  William Booth

  Girl, Heart, Ideas

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• While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

  William Booth

  Fighting, Dark, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

  William Booth

  Struggle, Men, Preaching The Gospel

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Light

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

  William Booth

  Fire, Soul, Baptism

  William Booth (1890). “Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirements of Jesus Christ's Service”

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• Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

  William Booth

  Army, Devil, Tunes

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• If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

  William Booth

  Heart, Army, Today

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• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.

  William Booth

  Fire, Here And There, Different

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• It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

  William Booth

  Heart, Men, Feet

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• Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?

  William Booth

  Feet, Missionary, Motto

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• ... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

  William Booth

  Army, Men, Clean

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• I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.

  William Booth

  Army, Secret

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• Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.

  William Booth

  Sailing, Half Time, Goes On

  "The Risks". The War Cry, December 20, 1884.

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• No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.

  William Booth

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Self

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”, Bryce

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• I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

  William Booth

  Soul, Body, Saving

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.

  William Booth

  Mother, Elephants, Tree

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• I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.

  William Booth

  Mean, Army, Promise

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• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

  William Booth

  Work, Men, Civilization

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”

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• It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

  William Booth

  Stupidity, Battle, Investing

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

  William Booth

  Food, Cooking, Would Be

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.

  William Booth

  Party, Self, Careers

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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